Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
ALL BAN AWAY TO MARRY.
SIX EIopements in One Family OF Girls
Pauline Beats tho Record.

New York Sun.
MIR. and Mrs. G0tlieb SChleCht, quaint
old German couple, have hired and lived
in the three-story brick house, at No. 50
Attorney street, for many years. In the
basement, good many feet below the
sidewalk, they keep a grocery store. In
the back room Of the basement they eat.
Three cows are CHARTERED in a shed in the
yard, and they are the pride of the old
couple.
The old folks have seven children, six
of whom are girls. Nearly all mothers
fix the ages of their children by some ca
tsstrophe or stroke of fortune that hap
pened when they were of certain age,
and Mrs SChlecht figures up the ages of
her Fix girls by the dates at which they
ran away and got married. Annie, the
eldest, ran away when she was twenty
one years old. Amelia when she was four
teen, Caroline and Meta when they We're
seventeen, Adehne when she WAS sixteen,
and Hortensa when she was twelve.
Hortensis, or as she is better known,
P4uline, disappeared three weeks ago
next Sunday with peddler named Ed
ward Russell, who is 90 years of age.
Edwards mother is a widow with seven
children, all younger than Edward. She
hired rooms of Mrs. Sch eCht several
months ago, and thus the two young peo-
pie saw g great deal of each other. The
day Pauline ran away she walked down
the street End met Russell, his sister and
ner escort, and the four went to the
house OF retired Lutheran minister
named BirCkmaE, a. No. 50 RivingtOn
street. Edward and Pauline had been
engaged" for some time, and several
days before Russell had asked the minis
ter TO perform the ceremony. Mr.. Brick
man IS eighty-fve years of age, and has
very poor eyesight. Russell told the cid
man that he was twenty-one years of age
and that Miss Schlecht would be eight
cen years old May 20, next. Pauline was
mutfled up in big shawl when she stood
up before the minister and the ceremony
was performed, Russell's friends being
the witnesses.
Russell had engaged rooms at 80
Columbia street, and had moved a good
deal OF his mothers furniture there. He
took his twelve-year-oldw wife there. Mr..
and Mrs. SchleCht had been searching
high and low for their daughter, and the
old gentleman had woven together nice
little bunch of rope with which to chas-
tiSe the bride as soon as she reappeared.
One Of his married daughters called
around IN the evening, and she learned
from RusselPS sister of the wedding.
When Mrs. Schlecht heard of it she made
mental note OF the date for future
reference, aud then decided not to tell
her husband Just then, because he was
Chopping wood, and she was afraid ne
would do something desperate with the
AK.
Finally the police of Attorney street
were informed Of the occurrence, and
Superintendent jenkins Of Mr. Gerry's
society was notified. Officer Young was
instructed to arrest the bridal pair, and
early n the following day he started out
to hunt them up. He took q policeman
with him and found them in their room
seated on opposite sides of a small table
playing dominoes. Russell sprsng up
when he saw the policeman, and, shaking
a newspaper IN his face, shouted:
"You can't do nothing now, because
we're married"
The bride and groom were both locked
up. They were arraigned later in the
Essex Market court. Russell was held
for trial on a charge of abduction, and
Pauline was turned over TO Mr.. Gerry's
society, and sent to the House of the
Good Shepherd. Yesterday Russell was
arraigned in the General Sessions court.
He pleaded guilty In his behalf it was
urged that he was ignorant of the lew
and that the marriage had not been con-
summated.
Assistant DISCREET Attorney Purdy was
not disposed to ask for severe punish
ment. He inclined TO the belief that the
clergyman was more at fault than the
Young man. The Rev. Mr.. Birckman is
eighty-three years of age. Mr.. Purdy
suggested that he be brought down.
Judge Gildersleeve, after conversing
with the infant wife and her mother, SEN
fenced the husband to ten days in the
city prison.
Adeline, the fifth daughter of the
Schlecht family, was fondling little baby
in the grocery last night when the repor-
ter called.
Pauline said she ran away because she
had to work too hard" said Adeline,
but she never did anything. l did all
the work. The reason l ran away was
because l was kept in the house too
much. Where is my husband? Oh, he's
farming"